US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Agent-based searching over heterogeneous data sources" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,645, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Agent-based searching over heterogeneous data sources" was invented by Andrew White Wicker (Fall City, Wash.), Max Piasevoli (New York), Quang Minh Nguyen (Redmond, Wash.), Srisuma Movva (Seattle), Kadri Tahsildoost (Bellevue, Wash.), Haijun Zhai (Bothell, Wash.) and Anand Mudgerikar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Searching heterogeneous cybersecurity data sources is described. A natural language search enables searching across available data sources, independent of underlying storage architectures or query languages. This ca...